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Events

Cold War 1947-03-12 - 1991-12-26
Apartheid 1948-05-26 - 1994-04-27
Guatemalan Civil War 1960-11-13 - 1996-12-29
South African Border War 1966-08-26 - 1990-03-21
The Troubles 1968-10-05 - 1998-04-10
Lebanese Civil War 1975-04-13 - 1990-10-13
Western Sahara War 1975-11 - 1991-09-06
Angolan Civil War 1975-11-11 - 2002-04-04
Spanish transition to democracy 1975-11-20 - 1982-10-28
Islamist uprising in Syria 1976-05-31 - 1982-02-28
Mozambican Civil War 1977-05-30 - 1992-10-04
Cambodian–Vietnamese War 1978-12-21 - 1989-09-26
Iran hostage crisis 1979-11-04 - 1981-01-20

People

Trần Đại Quang age 23
Mateusz Morawiecki age 11
Fidel Ramos age 51
Wallis Simpson age 83
Édouard Philippe age 9
Aslan Maskhadov age 28
Karl Nehammer age 7
Yves Leterme age 19
Alpha Condé age 41
Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson age 36
Morarji Desai age 83
Mary McAleese age 28
Ehud Barak age 37
Giuliano Amato age 41
Uhuru Kenyatta age 18
Helle Thorning-Schmidt age 12
Lars Løkke Rasmussen age 15
Ma Ying-jeou age 29
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé age 13
Dina Boluarte age 17
Bongbong Marcos age 22
Juan Antonio Samaranch age 59
Otto von Habsburg age 67
Bujar Nishani age 13
Abdul Hamid age 35
Hun Sen age 27
Kim Campbell age 32
Andrej Babiš age 25
Lenín Moreno age 26
Mari Kiviniemi age 11
Giorgos Papandreou age 27
Karolos Papoulias age 50
Rafiq Hariri age 35
Ulf Kristersson age 15
Lai Ching-te age 20
John Magufuli age 20
Pridi Banomyong age 79
Milton Obote age 53
Horacio Cartes age 23
Yun Po-sun age 82
Shigeru Ishiba age 22
Lionel Jospin age 42
Abolhassan Banisadr age 46
Patrice Talon age 21
Blaise Compaoré age 28
Prokopis Pavlopoulos age 29
János Kádár age 67
Oscar Luigi Scalfaro age 61
Bettino Craxi age 45
Valdas Adamkus age 53
Mamnoon Hussain age 38
Andrej Kiska age 16
Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi age 34
Chandrika Kumaratunga age 34
Michael I of Romania age 58
Élisabeth Borne age 18
Thomas Bach age 25
Manuel Noriega age 45
Raúl Alfonsín age 52
Khaleda Zia age 33
Thomas Boni Yayi age 27
Georgi Parvanov age 22
Paul Martin age 41
Mwai Kibaki age 48
Xavier Bettel age 6
Tunku Abdul Rahman age 76
Oleksandr Turchynov age 15
Ollanta Humala age 17
Chun Doo-hwan age 48
Zhao Ziyang age 60
Rex Tillerson age 27
Alexander Schallenberg age 10
Mia Mottley age 14
Elio Di Rupo age 28
Jean Chrétien age 45
Faustin-Archange Touadéra age 22
Andrej Plenković age 9
Laurent-Désiré Kabila age 40
John Kufuor age 41
P. V. Narasimha Rao age 58
Atifete Jahjaga age 4
Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta age 34
Janez Drnovšek age 29
Nguyễn Phú Trọng age 35
Keiko Fujimori age 4
Jacques Delors age 54
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon age 49
Mohammad Najibullah age 32
João Lourenço age 25
Werner Faymann age 19
Guy Verhofstadt age 26
Dimitris Christofias age 33
Alar Karis age 21
V. V. Giri age 85
Giovanni Leone age 71
Igor Dodon age 4
Yahya Khan age 62
Peter Pellegrini age 4
Ivan Gašparovič age 38
Cevdet Sunay age 80
Necmettin Erbakan age 53
Morgan Tsvangirai age 27
Felipe González age 37
George F. Kennan age 75
Itamar Franco age 49
Fernando Henrique Cardoso age 48
Jacques Rogge age 37
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi age 13
Bamir Topi age 22
Ilir Meta age 10
Alexander De Croo age 4
Sophie Wilmès age 4
Luis Arce age 16
Jeanine Áñez age 12
Simeon II of Bulgaria age 42
Jüri Ratas age 1
K. R. Narayanan age 59
Massimo D'Alema age 30
Dick Schoof age 22
Kurmanbek Bakiyev age 30
Saad Harirị age 9
Andry Rajoelina age 5
Peter Mutharika age 39
Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj age 16
Mário Soares age 55
Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani age 27
Zoran Đinđić age 27
Abhisit Vejjajiva age 15
Adama Barrow age 14
Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan age 18
Fernando Lugo age 28
Kgalema Motlanthe age 30
Shamil Basayev age 14
Zhu Rongji age 51
Mohammad-Ali Rajai age 46
Gough Whitlam age 63
Mathieu Kérékou age 46
Ismail Omar Guelleh age 32
Arnold Rüütel age 51
Nouri al-Maliki age 29
Moshe Katsav age 34
Ibrahim Rugova age 35
Sadyr Japarov age 11
Amadou Toumani Touré age 31
Ameenah Gurib-Fakim age 20
Ram Baran Yadav age 31
Stevo Pendarovski age 16
Desi Bouterse age 34
Xanana Gusmão age 33
Arsenii Yatseniuk age 5
Armand Fallières age 138
Pierre Mauroy age 51
Laurent Fabius age 33
Édith Cresson age 45
Michel Barnier age 28
Lê Đức Thọ age 68
Enda Kenny age 28
Queen Sofía of Spain age 41
Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh age 15
Queen Letizia of Spain age 7
Omar Bradley age 86
Soong Ching-ling age 86
Burhanuddin Rabbani age 39
Ivo Sanader age 26
Mohamed Naguib age 78
Andrus Ansip age 23
Loukas Papademos age 32
László Sólyom age 37
Edgars Rinkēvičs age 6
Valdis Zatlers age 24
Bingu wa Mutharika age 45
Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli age 27
Violeta Chamorro age 50
Bola Tinubu age 27
Nikola Gruevski age 9
Egor Gajdar age 23
Göran Persson age 30
Carl Bildt age 30
Prayut Chanocha age 25
Delcy Rodriguez age 10
Sadi Carnot (statesman) age 142
Lloyd Austin age 26
John Roberts age 24
Roch Marc Christian Kaboré age 22
Brian Mulroney age 40
Álvaro Uribe Vélez age 27
Matti Vanhanen age 24
R. Venkataraman age 69
William Ruto age 12
Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga age 42
Mohamed Agha age 24
Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca age 21
Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz age 22
Nicolae Timofti age 30
Chris Hipkins age 1
Evgeny Primakov age 50
Danilo Türk age 27
Tupou VI of Tonga age 20
Mykola Azarov age 31
Edgar Lungu age 23